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Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

isBandGeek() writes "After a few reasonable App Store bans, such as the ones on I Am Rich and NetShare, developers started complaining about excessive restrictions on applications like Podcaster and MailWrangler, supposedly because they provided 'duplicate functionality.' In response, Apple rubbed salt in their wounds by slapping non-disclosure agreements on application rejection notices. Now developers are not even allowed to tell their fanbase that Apple decided to withhold approval for an application. Is Apple confident that Google's open platform Android won't be much of a threat?"

3 of 477 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What happens if you don't agree? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You agreed to take it up the ass from apple the moment you accepted the SDK.

    AC for obvious reasons.

  2. Re:well by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 5, Informative

    You sign the NDA by default if you download & install the developer tools.

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    Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
  3. Re:well by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Informative

    In order to get rejected (or accepted) from the apple store, you need to pay $99 to join the iphone developer progeam, which involves accepting the terms. While there is no pen and ink signature, you need to unambiguously accept the terms.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.